EL-AHLY WOMEN TEAM WON THE AFRICAN CUP
CAVB DETERMINE THE QUALIFICATION TO THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
El-Ahly women team of Egypt insures the win of African Cup of Clubs' champions which ended today in Cairo defeating Pipeline of Kenya 3/1(25/23-23/25-27/25-25/8) in the final day. CAVB will decide to allow Ahly to represent Africa in the World Club Championship in Italy.
Sonel of Cameroon defeated Mouloudia of Algeria 3/1(19/25-25/17-25/17-25/23) to raise its points to 8 equalizing the total points of Pipeline. Both team were equalized also in set ratio(11/9) But Sonel got the second place by points ratio leaving the third place for Pipeline.
Injs of Cameroon got the fourth place defeating in its last match Tihad Sportive of Morocco 3/0(25/17-25/16-25/12)to raise the total points to 8 but with less set ratio than both Pipeline and Sonel. Mouloudia was placed fifth with 6 points then Tihad sixth with 5 points.
The final match was very exciting as Pipeline player did their best to compensate the loss of the cup which was determined before the final date. Ahly won the first set hardly 25/23 after good attacking complexes of the best player in the competition Tahani Toson and the best setter Miral Raouf.
The second set was very exciting as pipeline team led from the start till the end due to the good performance of the spiker Jabkosqei and Chege Lucy and perfect block of Leonidr Kmende to finish the set 25/23.
In the third set Tehany toson and the perfect server Noran Meghawry regained rhythm to end the longest set in the match 27/25. In the fourth set the high spirit of Ahly player ended the set easily 25/8